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“These test flights are part of our continuing demonstration of how DEFIANT supports the Army’s missions of massing combat power on the objective area,” Jay Macklin, Director of Business Development,…
His death marked the end of the Luftwaffe’s capacity to effectively oppose the growing American bombing campaigns against Germany with the heavily equipped twin-engine Me 110G and Me 410 aircraft…
An updated model of the renowned Albatross flying boat will be produced by the Australian company Amphibian Aerospace Industries A new variant of the renowned Albatross flying boat was produced…
Oberleutnant Oskar Romm, the Gruppenkommandeur of IV./JG 3, was one extremely skilled Luftwaffe pilot who ended his war flying the Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 One of Germany’s top fighter aircraft during…
At least 24 of the 80 Iraqi aircraft that were shot down by IRIAF air defenses between 16 January and 18 February 1983, according to several Western publications, were credited…
“The overall weight reduction was significant. We ended up with an airplane that weighed 11,300 pounds [dry] and we had an engine that produced 11,400 pounds thrust,” Ken Wallace former…
The nation’s highest award was given to B-17 pilot 1st Lt. William R. Lawley Jr., for his gallantry, while flying a Flying Fortress bombing mission over Leipzig as part of…
‘I have a Concorde operating westbound on a conflicting route with you at 60,000ft. I need a 4,000ft vertical separation. Do I have it?’ Pete Clarke, former air traffic controller.…
Capt. Dethlefsen received the Medal of Honor for demonstrating exceptional bravery above and beyond the call of duty. On February 1st, 1968, President Johnson made the presentation in the White…
“Ultimately, all of the U.S. airlines canceled their orders for the Concorde for economic as well as environmental reasons. John Anderson and I were tremendously disappointed,” Paul Roitsch, Captain with…